Mediagazer: Murdoch Chronicles: Is Rupert Pissed at James? (Michael Wolff/Newser)

8:15 PM ET, April 26, 2010

Top News:

Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. — They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.

Dan Frommer / The Wire:

Cops Bust Into Gizmodo Editor's Home And Seize Computers, Documents In iPhone Probe (AAPL) — Police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in Fremont, Calif. last week, seizing computers and other gadgets, as detectives probe how the gadget blog editor obtained an Apple iPhone prototype …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Geekosystem and Daring Fireball

Choire / The Awl:

Gawker Media Claims Reporter Exemption in Gizmodo Raid — When Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's computer was seized Friday night (as part of the investigation into Apple's missing/stolen iPhone), after the issuance of a search warrant, Gawker Media's lawyer/COO Gaby Darbyshire claimed that the warrant was invalid, due to reporter privilege.

Discussion: citmedialaw.org, Guardian, New York Observer and TechCrunch

John Cook / Yahoo! News:
What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case?

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: How Gizmodo Monetized an iPhone Spectacle

Discussion: DailyFinance, Media Decoder, VentureBeat, Gothamist, Fimoculous and Glass House

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Wall Street Journal Says It's Up to You, New York, New York — The Wall Street Journal's much-anticipated New York edition hit the doorsteps of the city and brought with it the first broadsheet newspaper competition in decades. — Soon after buying The Wall Street Journal in 2007 …

Discussion: Financial Times, DailyFinance, NY1 Living, BuzzMachine, Romenesko, New York Observer, Epicenter, Vanity Fair, Gothamist, NPR and FishbowlNY

Gillian Reagan / The Wire:

New York Times Executives Belittle Murdoch's Wall Street Journal To Advertisers In Staff Memo (NYT) — As the Wall Street Journal paper-bombs the city with their new New York section, New York Times' top executives publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson send out a message to their staffers.

Discussion: paidContent, MediaPost, Media Money …, Crain's New York Business, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Talking Biz News, blogs.tampabay.com, BusinessJournalism.org …, Media on HuffingtonPost.com, The Daily Beast, New York Observer, Guardian, Strupp, Mediaite and GigaOM

Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
So What's in the New Journal New York Section, Debuting Today?

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Romenesko, Runnin' Scared, City Room and Gothamist

Editor and Publisher:

Growing ‘Wall St. Journal’ Tops Daily Circulation List — CHICAGO On the same day it launched its “Greater New York” edition, The Wall Street Journal Monday topped the list of the nation's largest-circulation daily newspapers. The Journal was the only daily among the 10 largest to gain circulation …

Discussion: MarketWatch, MediaFile, DailyFinance, Media Decoder, Romenesko, The Wire, Guardian, Gannett Blog, Jon Slattery, Media Buyer Planner, News Corp. Blog and The Huffington Post

Andrew Vanacore / Associated Press:
US newspaper circulation down 8.7 percent

Discussion: Newspaper Association …, The Biz Blog, AdAge, Gawker, LA Observed, Tower Ticker, New York Times, Gannett Blog and FishbowlLA

Jon Chesto / Mass. Market:
Downside to a price hike: The Globe loses nearly one fourth of its paid readers

Discussion: paidContent

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

In Its Local Brawl With The NYT, The WSJ Pulls Out Some Foursquare Badges — The Wall Street Journal introduced a metro section today for Greater New York in Rupert Murdoch's ongoing efforts to go after the New York Times. The top story right now is “Rats Mob The Upper East Side” (seriously).

Discussion: Mashable!, Poynter Online, Gothamist and The Wire

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog and Faster Future

Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:

Newsweek.com Explores Amazon Cloud Computing — Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing. — Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Mike Shields / Mediaweek:

Yahoo's Identity Heft — Web publisher to tap more journos to help find its ‘voice’ — Yahoo is on the verge of hiring more traditional journalists as it plans to aggressively beef up original content for its top verticals, including news, business and entertainment.

Brian Steinberg / AdAge:

What Is Conde Nast Doing Making Kenneth Cole's YouTube Ads? — Under Threat, Media Push Further Into Agency Territory — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could the day soon arrive when a marketer will consider NBC Universal, Meredith Corp. or Conde Nast alongside BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy or JWT …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and Media Buyer Planner

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Twitter Taking Down Tweets Over Bogus DMCA Claims — You may recall the controversy over Google reacting too aggressively in pulling down music blog posts (or entire blogs) based on DMCA takedown notices. Eventually, Google revamped its DMCA policy to better handle the situation, though there have still been some complaints.

Discussion: Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

EveryBlock Partners With SeeClickFix To Add Local Complaints To Its Feeds — EveryBlock—the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator—is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets anybody report an issue in need of government action in their community.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, WebNewser, Local Onliner and SeeClickFix

Michael Wolff / Newser:

Murdoch Chronicles: Is Rupert Pissed at James? — Follow him on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC — James Murdoch's understanding with his father has been that, at an imminent time, he would take the next step in the family succession by moving to New York from his post in London where he runs the European and Asian operations of News Corp.

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

The Revolution Will Be Commercialized — Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America—and it's a position with a very big salary. — On the morning of July 3, 2009, a national holiday, Sarah Palin placed a call to her communications director and told her that she wanted to hold …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, The Awl, Gawker, The Daily Dish, Phlog, Right Now, The Caucus, Mediaite, New York Observer, The Wire, TVNewser, NewsBusters.org, Gothamist and The Atlantic Online

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow — As AOL pours $50 million into its hyperlocal news site Patch.com to expand its sites around the country, smaller competitors are maintaining confidence that their platforms can survive AOL's aggressive content strategy.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and Editors Weblog

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Techmeme's Media Spinoff Hits100K Monthly Uniques Since March Launch — Techmeme, considered by many as the most authoritative tech news aggregator, spun off a media news site called Mediagazer in early March. — Since its launch, it has quickly garnered 100,000 unique monthly visitors …

Discussion: Trends in the Living Networks and WebNewser

Financial Times:

Buy-out firms prepare to float Nielsen — Nielsen, the world's largest TV and consumer measurement company, will begin auditioning bankers next month for one of the largest US initial public offerings in recent years

Discussion: Washington Post and DealBook

Alex Alvarez / FishbowlNY:

Mashable Goes To Print Across Metro Papers — Mashable, “the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news,” has entered into a deal into a syndication deal with Metro International (the preferred newspaper network of actor Matthew Modine) which will see the blog's posts in print.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Steve Cohn / MinOnline:

Burgess Leaves OK! for Hollywood Reporter — Lori Burgess, OK! publisher since September 2008, resigned this morning (April 26) to join the Richard Beckman-led e5 Global Media as The Hollywood Reporter publisher. — “I'm very excited—we've got ambitious plans in the works,” she tells min.

Discussion: MediaPost, Deadline.com, Hollywood Reporter and paidContent